[Qgis-developer] Release plans for QGIS 1.6

Sun Oct 17 04:42:12 EDT 2010

On 17/10/2010 10:37, Tim Sutton wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Vincent Leong <loldog2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> How about hill names as release names?
>> Hills is better than mountains because mountains is always too well
>> known and probably been used by others.
>> Moreover, their shape can be used to differentiate releases.
>>
>> One example: Bohol
>>
> Any nice pics to go with your suggestion? I quite like the idea since
> philosophically each release is another hill we have climbed and put
> behind us :-)

Or characteristics contour lines of the hill (we are dealing with GIS
after all)?

My 2 cents
Benoit

> Lets keep the discussion on-list ok?
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>> On 10/17/10, Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com> wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> I agree that real place names is a better idea. I could see lots of
>>>> Mythical/Fictitious names actually being claimed by people. I will also
>>>> point out that the Mozilla Foundation uses National Parks/Reserves in
>>>> the code naming of pre-release firefox branches and suggest that we
>>>> could do something with a greater cause as our release names:
>>>> Endangered Species, World Heritage Sites, Rivers, Mountain Peaks, etc..
>>>> (suggest your idea)
>>>>
>>> Sorry in retrospect my original email was probably unclear. It was my
>>> intention that we use *real* (hence photographable) place names, but
>>> obscure ones that a) have some geographical interest and b) are
>>> unlikely to ever have been used by someone as a trademark. Having a
>>> theme to the place names would be fine (making them really obscure and
>>> interesting was kind of my idea for a theme, but another theme would
>>> be fine too).
>>>
>>> Using well known places e.g. Moscow as Maxim suggests will lead to
>>> similar conflicts as using planetary moons.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
>>>
>>>> We could also de-emphasize the release name and use it amongst the
>>>> developer group to keep track of what's being worked on, ie the trunk
>>>> will have a name leading up to it's release and then switch names.
>>>>
>>>> I also agree, to just avoid the issue as it's not worth our effort to
>>>> fight.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Alex
>>>>
>>>> On 10/16/2010 03:06 PM, Maxim Dubinin wrote:
>>>>> How about making release names geographic. QGIS 1.6 "Moscow" sounds
>>>>> good and easily memorizable.
>>>>>
>>>>> Maxim
>>>>>
>>>>> Вы писали 16 октября 2010 г., 14:07:10:
>>>>>
>>>>> TS> Hi
>>>>>
>>>>> TS> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Jürgen E. <jef at norbit.de> wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi Tim,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sat, 16. Oct 2010 at 01:42:54 +0200, Tim Sutton wrote:
>>>>>>>> We (the PSC) recently received a threat of legal action against our
>>>>>>>> use of the word 'Tethys' in the naming of the 1.5 release of QGIS.
>>>>>>>> It seems that the word Tethys is trademarked by a company in one
>>>>>>>> country.
>>>>>>>> Although we feel their case is weak, we do not have the time, money or
>>>>>>>> inclination to engage in a legal battle over this.
>>>>>>> Does OSGeo have a position on this?  I thought the OSGeo umbrella was
>>>>>>> also
>>>>>>> covering legal support.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Just curious - that would probably be a waste of time of resources
>>>>>>> anyway.
>>>>>>>
>>>>> TS> Ok Frank covered that. And yeah we should pick our battles...
>>>>>
>>>>>>>> This has a few implications:
>>>>>>>> - The PSC has agreed to stop using planetary moons as the names for
>>>>>>>> our releases, and embark on a new theme of using extremely obscure
>>>>>>>> place names (e.g. the mythical Tweebuffelsmeteenskootgeskietfontein in
>>>>>>>> South Africa).
>>>>>>> Do we need codenames at all?   Any name - obscure or not - could be a
>>>>>>> trademark.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>> TS> *sniff* lose the release names? That would be no fun....should we let
>>>>> TS> big corporations take away our fun? :-P
>>>>>
>>>>> TS> But yeah theoretically we don't need them, though personally I'd like
>>>>> TS> to continue with them...
>>>>>
>>>>> TS> Regards
>>>>>
>>>>> TS> Tim
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Jürgen
>>>>>>>
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